How marvelously we were brought together! And all this in the course of a single, short day.

And you also....

I ask you, by all that is holy to you...

Did you, after you saw me in the court of sacrifice, not think of me so often and so vividly that it astonished you ?" "You are Caesar," answered Melissa, with increasing anxiety.
"So you thought of my purple robes ?" asked Caracalla, and his face clouded over; "or perhaps only of my power that might be fatal to your family?
I will know.

Speak the truth, girl, by the head of your father!" Then Melissa poured forth this confession from her oppressed heart: "Yes, I could not help remembering you constantly,...